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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat ..

by: Colonna, Francesco, -1527

Publication date: 1499

Topics: Courtly love., Dreams., Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800., Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern), McGill University Library Digitized Title, Rare Books and Special Collections - Main Collection, Courtly love, Dreams, Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800, Latin literature, Medieval and modern

Publisher: Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissime

Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: Latin

Item Size: 1.4G

[468] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

[468] pages : 31 cm

Name of the author given in acrostic formed by the first letters of the chapters: Poliam frater Franciscus Columna peramauit

"P. Scapecchi, in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia 51 (1983) pp. 286-98 and 53 (1985) pp. 68-73, argues that Colonna is the dedicatee, and that the author is Fra Eliseo da Treviso."--ISTC (RLIN), ic00767000

Imprint from colophon (F4r), in which date precedes printer's name. At bottom of F3r: .M. CCCC. LXVII. Kalendis Maii

Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸€ F⁴

C1 missigned E; F4v and z10v are blanks

Woodcut capitals

Woodcuts on a6v and c1r signed: b

Errata: F4r

Includes (p. [2]-[8]) contributions by Leonardo Crasso, Johann Baptista Scytha, and Andreas Maro Brixianus. Crasso underwrote the cost of the book's printing. Cf. Gerulaitis, L.V., Printing and publishing in fifteenth-century Venice, p. 4

Addeddate: 2021-06-11 20:01:03

Associated-names: Crasso, Leonardo; Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515; Eliseo, da Trevino, active 15th century

Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_hypnerotomachia-poliphili_foliolncun1499Colonna-20536

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t5r89x82w

Note: Name of the author given in acrostic formed by the first letters of the chapters: Poliam frater Franciscus Columna peramauit.
"P. Scapecchi, in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia 51 (1983) pp. 286-98 and 53 (1985) pp. 68-73, argues that Colonna is the dedicatee, and that the author is Fra Eliseo da Treviso."--ISTC (RLIN), ic00767000.
Imprint from colophon (F4r), in which date precedes printer's name. At bottom of F3r: .M. CCCC. LXVII. Kalendis Maii.
Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸€ F⁴.
C1 missigned E; F4v and z10v are blanks.
Woodcut capitals.
Woodcuts on a6v and c1r signed: b.
Errata: F4r.
Includes (p. [2]-[8]) contributions by Leonardo Crasso, Johann Baptista Scytha, and Andreas Maro Brixianus. Crasso underwrote the cost of the book's printing. Cf. Gerulaitis, L.V., Printing and publishing in fifteenth-century Venice, p. 4.
BM 15th cent.,v. 5, p. 461 (IB. 24500).
Goff,C-767
GW7223
Hain-Copinger,5501
ISTC (RLIN),ic00767000
Rare Books Dept.'s copy bound in mottled calf, with gold tooling on spine, gold triple fillets on covers, and gold double fillets on edges of covers; red morocco label on spine has title: Poliphil; marbled endpapers; note about the edition in ms. on fly leaf; 1 newspaper clipping and 1 printed notice about sales of other copies of this edition pasted on front fly leaf.